Ben G. Fodor

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Ben G. Fodor (born February 21, 1953 in Dorog ) is an artist from Hungary who lives in Vienna .

Life

Ben G. Fodor worked in communist Hungary after completing a mechanical engineering degree at the Technical University of Budapest as a lathe operator, deep sea nematode and technical-chemical skilled worker. After fleeing to Austria in 1981, he first worked as a transport company, bookseller and then as a photographer. He has been a freelance artist since 2000.

Ben Gyula Fodor works in the media of photography, installation, drawing and performance. He uses photography non-representationally as well as representationally. He stages series with actors ( Eat Me ) or with himself as a performer in front of the camera ( Future Skills ). He combines photographic works of historical buildings and monuments with architectural wooden sculptures and drawings ( Incipit Vita Nova ). Or he creates immaterial architectures by moving light sources with long exposure ( Carmine ). Fodor is particularly interested in the artistic investigation of past and current utopias; dealing with the “limbo”, which represents the creative and enriching side of uprooting through migration. And he is concerned with overcoming conventional perspective vision and thus with a new spatiality - in the pictorial space and beyond.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2019: Parallel Vienna: artist statement, Vienna / AT
  • 2018: Belvedere 21: Performance What is utopia. Electro-philosophical Odyssey , Vienna / AT
  • 2017: Vienna Art Week / Marcello Farabegoli Projects & Rudolf Leeb Gallery: Carmine , Vienna / AT
  • 2015: Jena Art Collection : Incipit Vita Nova , Jena / DE
  • 2014: The Barn, St. John's College Oxford in cooperation with ZKM Karlsruhe: Total Potemkin , Oxford / GB
  • 2012: Museumsquartier (Summer of Fashion) / Leopoldmuseum : Performance Madonna Now , Vienna / AT
  • 2005: Christine König Gallery: Semtükvel. At the limit of seeing , Vienna / AT

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2020: Walden Art Exhibitions: Nothing but Drawings Vol. 6 , Berlin / DE
  • 2019: Vasarely Museum : Moon Museum , Budapest / HU
  • 2018: Ars Electronica : Carmine , Linz / AT
  • 2016: The School of Kyiv / Department Vienna; Fodor's Wall , Vienna / AT
  • 2016: Ludwig Museum Budapest: # Bartók , Budapest / HU
  • 2008: Steirischer Herbst / Minoriten Galleries: Wie du mir - counter images for transcultural thinking and acting , Graz / AT
  • 2003: Kunsthalle Wien : Attack - Art and War in the Times of the Media , Vienna / AT

Collections (selection)

Bibliography (selection)

  • In: Sprachfelder 16 . Curated by Cathrin Pichler, Der Standard , museum in progress, February 15, 2002
  • In: Sprachfelder 20 . Curated by Cathrin Pichler, Der Standard, museum in progress, April 18, 2002
  • Maria Schindelegger: Gyula Fodor, “Eat me”. In: EIKON # 46 , 2004.
  • Mark Gisbourne: Constellations. In: Ben G. Fodor, noosphere. Artist book. Salamon Verlag, 2007.
  • Publication of approx. 100 works in the almanac (and the programs) of the Salzburg Festival , Residenz Verlag, Salzburg 2007.
  • Sylvère Lotringer: Utopia revisited. In: Ben G. Fodor, Incipit Vita Nova . Artist book. Edited by Dorothee Frank. Kerber Verlag, 2014.
  • Georg Schöllhammer: Breakfast with Fodor. In: Ben G. Fodor, Incipit Vita Nova . Artist book. Edited by Dorothee Frank. Kerber Verlag, 2014.
  • Anna Soucek: Save the pictures with your eyes only . In: Radio Austria 1, October 8, 2014
  • Monika Mertl: There is no seeing without desire. In: Die Presse, May 19, 2017
  • Martina Genetti: Art on the parabolic path. In: salto.bz, November 30, 2017.
  • Désirée Hailzl: Ben G. Fodor - Carmine: Red line structure on black. In: artmagazine.cc, December 4, 2017.
  • Georg Schöllhammer: Ben G. Fodor - Staged Architectures. In: fair, magazine for art & architecture, 02/2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carmine - Lens . Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  2. ↑ What is utopia. Electro-philosophical odyssey . Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  3. ↑ Carmine . Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  4. ↑ Carmine . Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  5. ^ Incipit Vita Nova . Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  6. ^ Total Potemkin .
  7. ↑ Madonna Now . Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  8. ↑ Semtükvel. At the limit of sight . Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  9. ↑ Nothing but Drawings Vol 6 . Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  10. ^ Moon Museum . Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  11. ↑ Carmine . Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  12. ^ Fodor's Wall . Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  13. ↑ # Bartók . Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  14. ↑ Like you to me . Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  15. ↑ Attack - Art and War in the Times of the Media . Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  16. ^ Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Vienna . Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  17. ^ Vienna Museum . Retrieved April 28, 2020.
  18. ^ Minorite Galleries . Retrieved April 28, 2020.
  19. ^ Banca Carige . Retrieved April 28, 2020.
  20. ^ Publishing house author
  21. ^ Publishing house author
personal data
SURNAME Fodor, Ben G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fodor, Ben Gyula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-Austrian artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorog